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For days on end we use only
black and white
I see what I want to see
& you see the opposite

Days standing on end?
Lying end to end?
How many times do they wrap
the earth or reach to Saturn

As many days as bees
in the goldenrod    as keys
on pianos lying end to end
to the hull of the Titanic

Wherever that is     If Jean-Michel
Basquiat could do it so could
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Don’t play around    I mean it

Punch his chest when he chokes
& don’t take the pink scarf
like a charm reversed
like a talon in the eye or heart

When a language has only two words
for colors they are those

Type it once for yes
Type it twice for all of it
to come flooding pouring
brimming back